Corrugated link for wire fabric.



G. B. SMITH. CORRUGATED LINK FOR WIRE FABRIC. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1912.

1,079,806, Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

Attorneys Inventor" GARY B. SMITH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CORRUGATED LINK FOR WIRE FABRIC.

Original application filed August 9, 1912, Serial No. 714,283.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GARY B. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Corrugated Link for Wire Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in corrugated chain links, particularly adapted to serve as the longitudinal meshforming member of wire fabric of that type patterned or fashioned more especially after the longitudinal strand or element of the improved wire fabric constituting the subject matter of my copending application filed August 9, 1912, Serial No. 714,283, and of which this is a divisional application.

The invention has for its ob]ect to so construct or devise a link or longitudinal meshforming member or strand as to facilitate assembling of the transverse mesh-forming member therewith in the production of the wire fabric.

A further object is to provide for so constructing said link, longitudinal member or strand that it will not become distorted or bent by the strain of the transverse strand thereon; that it will practically provide for predetermining the point of connection therebetween and the transverse mesh-forming member.

A still further object is to so construct said link or longitudinal mesh-forming member as to provide an extended reinforcing bearing or supporting area for the weight placed thereon.

The invention, therefore, consists of the structural features thereof for effecting the aforesaid ends substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and defined by the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings is illus trated the preferred embodiment of my invention wherein it will be understood that various changes and modifications may be made such as relate to the details construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit of the invention, and in which drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention manifolded. Fig. 2 is a like view of the invention in its unitary form. Fig. 3 is a side or edge elevation thereof. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the same, viewing the hooked terminal thereof. Fig. 5 is a frag- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25,1913.

Divided and this application filed November Serial No. 729,101.

mental longitudinal section, disclosing more fully the manner of effecting connection between a plurality of links or longitudinal mesh-forming members or strands.

In carrying out the invention I employ a link formed of a member or element 1, a plurality thereof being disclosed in one figure of the drawing as above indicated, which link or member answers to the longitudinal mesh-forming member or strand as disclosed in my co-pending application aforesaid, and which said plurality of links 2 or members may constitute a chain or flexible connection, as is thought apparent.

The element or member 1 is formed or stamped from a single metal strip or piece, preferably returned or extended upon itself, the resultant parallel limbs being formcd at the ends or terminals with an eye 3 and a hook 7 in duplicate formation, respectively. Said links are struck outwardly in arcuate outline, as at 5, at short intervals apart, intermediate of said eye 3 and hook 7, said arcuate outlines 5 forming additional eyes or openings 6. The limbs of the member or element 1, designated intermediate the eyes 6 as 4, are in a common plane with all the eyes, and said eyes being preferably substantially equal in diameter to the lengths of said parts 4, serve to provide a reinforced extended lateral surface, bearing or means of support for the weight placed thereon, as a mattress and the occupant thereof, as when the wire fabric embodying my invention is used in connection with a bed. The links or members 1, when used, as in forming a chain, or in forming a wire fabric, are connected or linked together by means of the hooks 7 and eyes 3, the hooks being suitably closed, as in Fig. 1.

The laterally extended reinforcing arcuate portions of the strands or links, by thus increasing the area of each chain-forming link, lessen the number of chains which may be used in the complete fabric. Also it will be noted that the plane intermediate portions 4: provide for the attachment thereto of the transverse mesh-forming members, instead of requiring their attachment to the eye portions as heretofore, and accordingly guard against the pulling apart of the limbs of the member. Further, the eye-forming arcuate portions of the links or longitudinal mesh-forming members serve to prevent the transverse mesh-forming members from itself to form an eye 3 at one end of the link and to form limbs, each limb terminating in a hook 7 the said hooks 7 facing the same Way and being partly on each side of the plane of the link, the limbs comprising straight contacting parts 4: and oppositely disposed out-struck portions 5 alternating With the straight parts 4 throughout the length of the link and defining eyes 6, the eye forming portions 5 and the straight parts i of each limb lying upon the same sideof a plane passed between the straight part-s 4 of the respective limbs, the diameters of the eyes 6 being substantially equal to the lengths of the straight portions 4.

I claim A link for Wire fabrics, fashioned from a strip of material bent upon itself to form an eye at one end of the link and to form limbs, each limb terminating in a hook, said hooks facing the same Way and being partly on each side of the plane of the link; the links comprising straight contacting parts and oppositely disposed out-struck portions alternating With the straight parts throughout the length of the link and defining eyes, the eye-forming portions and the straight parts of each limb lying upon the same side of a plane passed between the straight parts of the respective limbs, the diameters of the eyes being substantially equal to the lengths of the straight portions.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GARY B. SMITH.

Witnesses:

SELINA WILLsoN, MASON B. LAWTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

